Medicine: Rex Morgan Revealed

Rex Morgan, M.D., a square-jawed general practitioner with an
adventurous suburban clientele, has become the most widely known
physician in the U.S. without ever stepping out of a comic strip. Since
his appearance in 1948, Dr. Rex's struggles with quacks, epidemics and
psychoses have made him one of the strips' most cherished favorites.†
After a long and successful effort to keep his own identity a secret,
Rex's creator and author has now owned up. His name: Dr. Nicholas P.
Dallis, 42, Toledo psychiatrist.

Human Failings. Dallis, an amateur cartoonist before he went to Temple
University medical school, had long toyed with the...